[NewMusic] underwhelmed @ Mills

[Polly Moller]

I'm not much of a visual artist, so I'm sure other folks here have a
better handle on
these terms, but I feel like there's a continuum from "abstract" to
"figurative",
and I feel like my music, for example, is more on the figurative end,
since there are
words in it, arranged in such a way that they evoke more certain
imagery, more so than
if the vocalizations were wordless.

(there goes the poet with an awful run-on sentence...;)  )
P.

On Nov 7, 2007 1:51 PM, Sarah - 21 Grand <21grand at 21grand.org> wrote:
> Barry wrote:
> You know, I used to describe my music as "abstract" until recently,
> when the word started sounding really funny to me.
>
> sl: I think the word "loop" sounds funnier - though maybe that's just me.
> The word "kumquat" is amusing, too.
>
> Actually I think my music (and I assume the music you are talking
> about with sound masses) is the opposite of abstract.  There is
> almost no abstraction at all, its just physical sound.
>
> sl: Okay Barry, now you're confusing me, but maybe my confusion stems from
> applying the term "abstract" and what it refers to in visual art to music.
> What you're describing would perfectly fit that definition of "abstract" -
> sound as sound, as opposed to sound describing a pastoral scene, or a cow
> jumping over the moon, or the death of Jesus, with elements that try to
> realistically replicate what these things would sound like to a fairly
> unimaginative person.
>
> sl
>
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